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2019-10-09T00:00:00+00:00

BlogEngine 3.6 released

2018-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

Well, here is BlogEngine 3.6 and you may wonder what changed? basically nothing but a new standard theme.

We have some plans to update BlogEngine with new features and a new design. but we need some help as well. so try to contact us if you think you can help us with the development and the design.

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BlogEngine 3.1 released

2014-09-14T00:00:00+00:00

Newest version 3.1 is available as upgrade from 3.0 and can be installed from admin dashboard. You can install it as auto update with a click of the button, but we strongly recommend doing it on local install and then copying files to hosting server rather than running upgrade on live site. Upgrade by nature does lots of file copy/delete operations and doing it on busy live site may run into error. Please refer to documentation for more details.

What changed in version 3.1

Improvements to admin gallery (download counts, ratings and reviews)
Custom fields added to author profiles and posts
Small improvements and bug fixes, as always
3rd party components updated to latest versions

Standard deployment packages will be available on Codeplex next weekend, which will be a pattern going forward.

BlogEngine 3.0 released

2014-06-16T00:00:00+00:00

Today we are releasing BlogEngine 3.0 with host of new features and improvements. Here is the short list:

Along with new features, there are changes, improvements and bug fixes to make project better. Here couple of big ones.

Web Application instead of Website

BlogEngine started as website project back in the days when it was defalt option. For variaty of reasons we moved BE to more modern, stable and generally accepted Web Application model. Main difference is instead of deploying .cs files to web server and letting ASP.NET create assemblies on the fly, build happens before deployment. So instead of many .cs files we build and deploy single BlogEngine.dll.

New Gallery

Changing application model now requires extensions to be compiled rather than installed as .cs files. We took this as opportunity to change gallery site from 3rd party we've been using to standard gallery server with simple package upload form. We converted most items to run under 3.0 and keep working on moving the rest. More to come.

BlogEngine 2.9 released

2013-12-29T00:00:00+00:00

Today we are happy to announce BlogEngine 2.9 release to the public! Last few weeks we’ve been hard at work improving and polishing 2.9 beta and now it is ready for everyone to download and use. We put a lot of work into this release and hope you'll enjoy using it. You can also check out Francis's post on design process with some nice screenshots.

Happy New Year and Merry Blogging!!!

What's new in 2.9

Admin UI redesigned using latest Bootstrap framework.
New standard theme, also Bootstrap based, standards compliant with clean and beautiful design that is easy to extend and pleasure to use.
Improvements to theme layouts (separate single post and page templates, navigation template and more)
New light-weight JavaScript based post editor
New admin UI runs on AngularJS and SPA (single page) application model
ASP.NET Web API and Repository Pattern on the back-end

Technical requirements

.NET framework 4.5
Visual Studio 2012/2013 to work with code (express is fine)
IIS 7 and up, integrated mode
Full trust for website in IIS. Mix or .NET 4.0 and 4.5 assemblies still require full trust, we keep looking into options to get it down to medium but it is harder than we estimated initially.
Support for Razor (web pages). MVC not required, but installing it is a simplest way to have Razor configured with IIS

Known issues

We will monitor closely Codeplex discussions and, if needed, will create a patch for any critical issues.

BlogEngine 2.8 released

2013-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

We are happy to announce BlogEngine 2.8 release!

You can get it on our downloads page and upgrade instructions are available here.

Here are some helpful videos on how to install version 2.8 and how to upgrade from 2.7 to 2.8 using updater utility.

What is new in this release

Bug fixes. We made lots of fixes and improvements to make code more stable, reliable and work well out of the box.
New standard theme. With a help of our newest project member Francis standard theme made great strides to catch up with new design trends and we have plans to do more in this area.
Improvements to site aggregation. With 2.8 you will be able easily to set up a blog for a family, friends or any group of people to help them collaborate and share their work.
Upgrades to latest versions for most of the 3rd party libraries like TinyMCE editor, syntax highlighter, Razor, WebPages and more. Most external libraries now Nuget based which we hope will become a common pattern.
Azure ready - BlogEngine 2.8 can run on Azure out of the box, including SQL Server data provider.

Should I upgrade?

This is incremental release with lots of bug fixes and small improvements. Even if you don't see big features you still be better of upgrading to the latest. It is usually easy to upgrade from previous version but getting harder as you skip. Keeping up with updates is always winning strategy.

BlogEngine 2.7 released

2012-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

Today we are releasing BlogEngine 2.7!

It can be downloaded here. If you are upgrading from a previous version, upgrade instructions are available.

What's New

Here is a list of new features. While there are a lot of good changes in this version, two that stand out are some needed security improvements and extensionless URLs. With extensionless URLs turned on, the URLs to your posts, pages, category landing pages, and static pages (contact, archive and search) become extensionless.

Contributors

Thanks to all the BlogEngine 2.7 contributors. The notable contributors are listed on the 2.7 features list (if we missed you, let us know!). And thanks to those who tested the 2.7 release candidate. Looking to contribute to BlogEngine? Here are a few ways you can contribute!

New Installation or Upgrade

After downloading the new version, it can be installed as either a new installation, or you may upgrade your existing blog with these upgrade instructions.

Your Feedback is Welcome

If you run into any installation issues or problems while running the release candidate, please let us know in the CodePlex BlogEngine Discussion group, or you can report any problems in the Issue Tracker.

BlogEngine 2.6 released

2012-05-14T00:00:00+00:00

We're very happy to announce the release of BlogEngine 2.6! This release builds on to an already stellar blogging platform, adding several great features and performance improvements, contributed by both the BlogEngine team and a lot of code contributors.

The new release can be downloaded here. If you are upgrading from a previous version, upgrade instructions are available.

What's New

Here is a list of all the new features.

Below are some screenshots taken of the new Quick Notes, File Manager and Image Tools -- all new version 2.6 features.

Feature List

The screenshots above highlight a few of the new features. Again, here's a more complete list of features.

Database Support

We continue to support 4 databases out of the box -- in addition to the default XML storage option. Those databases are SQL Server, MySQL, SQL CE and SQLite.

Contributors

Thanks to all the BlogEngine 2.6 contributors. Looking to contribute to BlogEngine? Here are a few ways you can contribute! We're also looking for one or more spokespersons.

New Installation or Upgrade

After downloading BlogEngine 2.6, it can be installed as either a new installation, or you may upgrade your existing blog with these upgrade instructions. You can also try upgrade utility to automate most of the process.

Your Feedback is Welcome

If you run into any installation issues or problems, please let us know in the CodePlex BlogEngine Discussion group, or you can report any problems in the Issue Tracker. Feature requests can also be posted in the Discussions forum, Issue Tracker or on the BlogEngine Wish List forums. Thanks to all for your continued support of BlogEngine, and we hope you enjoy the new release!

BlogEngine 2.5 released

2011-06-27T00:00:00+00:00

The next version of BlogEngine, version 2.5 is here! Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release. The new version can be downloaded here. If you're upgrading from a previous version, here are the upgrade instructions.

ASP.NET 4.0

BlogEngine has been upgraded to ASP.NET 4.0. This has allowed us to take advantage of new .NET 4.0 features such as Razor templating, NuGet package integration and other features included in .NET 4.0. To install or ugprade to BE.NET 2.5, you'll want to make sure your website is at a webhost or on a web server that has ASP.NET 4.0 available.

Multiple Blogs in a Single Installation

It is here at last! Multiple blogs in a single installation is supported for both XML and DB storage. It's very flexible in that you can setup new "blog instances" based on a 1 or more pre-created templates, and you can configure each blog instance with a flexible URL system where a blog instance can be identified by the virtual sub-folder it is installed in, or by a unique hostname. If you will be using the new multiple blog feature, and you have existing custom themes, extensions or widgets, it's possible those items may need to be slightly adjusted to be fully multiple-blog compatible. Screenshots and details can be found here.

Razor Themes and Razor Pages

One of the perks of moving up to ASP.NET 4.0 is that we take advantage of Razor templating technology. In particular, Razor themes are supported in BlogEngine 2.5, and a number of the admin pages in the control panel have been converted to be Razor pages -- including the Extension related pages, a new Theme settings page and the Dashboard.

BlogEngine 2.5 includes a Razor theme named Garland-Revisited which can be seen running live here. If you are interested in creating your own Razor theme for BlogEngine, I recommend you take a look at the Garland-Revisited theme to see how that works. You can use any Razor syntax and any Razor helpers, etc with your Razor theme.

Integration with the BlogEngine Gallery

If you haven't yet seen the BlogEngine Gallery, check it out. At the gallery, themes, extensions and widgets can be downloaded (or uploaded) and installed into your blog. The packages there you download are NuGet packages which work well because you can download a package and manually install it into your blog, or you can use Visual Studio to automate the install for you.

What we've done in BlogEngine 2.5 is allow you to view, search and install Themes from the BlogEngine Gallery directly into your blog, and you can do all of this while in your blog's control panel. Under Settings in the control panel, there's a new Themes sub-tab where you can view all of your installed themes, and click a "Gallery" link (upper right corner) to switch to the available themes at the BlogEngine Gallery.

In the next version of BlogEngine we plan on having the same type of BlogEngine Gallery integration with Extensions and Widgets so those too can be installed directly from within the control panel.

Other Updates

Many other small improvements and important fixes have made their way into BlogEngine 2.5. A complete list of features can be found here.

Download & Feedback

We're excited about the new features in this version. If you have any questions or have any feedback on this release, the best place to pass that onto us is in the CodePlex Discussions. Again, here is the Download link, and here are the Upgrade Instructions if upgrading from a previous release. Thanks for your support.

BlogEngine 2.0 released

2010-11-23T00:00:00+00:00

Just several months after version 1.6 was released, we're happy to announce that a Release Candidate for BlogEngine 2.0 is available.

We accomplished meeting most of our Roadmap goals. The most visible change is the redesign of the control panel. Many thanks to team member Janko Jovanovic for this much more modern control panel UI. There's now a Dashboard, and new pages to View all of your Posts and Pages, which is really nice for easily being able to see your data.

New Databases

On the database side, we are now supporting SQL CE 4. This is a standalone database similar to SQLite and VistaDB. We're no longer providing updates for VistaDB, but you may update your existing VistaDB with the new DB tables & columns which can be found in the upgrade scripts for other databases we continue to provide updates for (SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite).

Features & Upgrading

A complete list of new features in BlogEngine v2.0 can be found here. It's worth noting that this version has made the leap from .NET 2.0 to .NET 3.5. If you are upgrading from a previous version, there's been a lot of changes to files and folders. Please see the upgrade instructions which provide a relatively painless way to upgrade. As this is just a Release Candidate, there may be unidentified problems that need to be fixed. A number of team and community members have been running the latest builds, and it's fairly solid now. If you do find any problems, please report them in the Issue Tracker.

Video

If you'd like to get an idea of some of the new features and see what the new control panel UI looks like, the 4 - 5 minute video below hightlights this.

Acknowledgements

BlogEngine version 2.0 has been developed by an unprecedented number of contributors. Switching to Mercurial for source code control has made it very easy for enthusiastic developers to create forks and contribute code. Special thanks to the following people who made version 2.0 a realization.

Download, Test & Enjoy

Download BlogEngine 2.0 RC now. If you find any problems, we really appreciate if you report them in the Issue Tracker. Again, here are the upgrade instructions. We hope you find 2.0 to be stellar!